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Left: Al Tomyn sorts some cattle at the Mistatim Community Pasture on Oct. 1 for their fall round-up.

Review Photos/Taryn Riemer Right: Brandon Reimer, left, and Andrew Penner push cattle up the sorting chute on their horses during the Mistatim pasture roundup.

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71st consecutive harvest for Bjorkdale’s McKeiths

BY TARYN RIEMER •

REPORTER@TISDALERECORDER.CA

Submitted Photo Left: The McKeith kids line up for a picture in 1945. From left, Gordon, Grant, Joyce and Ron. Review Photo/Taryn Riemer Middle: Gordon McKeith stands in front of a combine that’s just like the first combine his dad bought in 1945. He has this combine, along with other machinery, on display on the highway across from Bjorkdale.

Submitted Photo Right: Grant, left, and Gordon stand in a flax field in the 1950s.

Gordon McKeith, 84, completed his first harvest in 1945 when he was 14 years old. They used horses to run the machinery and now in 2015, Gordon is on his 71st consecutive harvest using big trucks and combines to get the job done.

“Everything has really changed from the horse and buggy days to now. Steel wheel tractors to big tractors today and small combines to large combines today and small cultivators to large cultivators,” said Gordon.

“Everything is bigger and faster and we’re older and slower,” joked

Margaret McKeith, Gordon’s wife.

When the family first moved to Ridgedale, Gordon, his twin brother, Grant, and older brother, Ron, helped their dad, Robert, farm 500 acres near Ridgedale for several years.

Their mom, Ruby, and sister, Joyce, also were at Ridgedale. When Gordon started hauling grain, there was a lot of manual labour involved. “[We] hauled with horses for four years and two years we had to shovel the grain off and two years after that we got,” said Gordon, “a grain elevator that was 16 feet long with paddles that took the grain up.”

Review Photo/Taryn Riemer Gordon McKeith stands by the first grain truck the McKeiths had to haul grain. It had a 150 bushel grain box on the back.

He added they later got a grain truck and a grain auger.

The twins moved to Bjorkdale in 1951 to try their hand at farming there. Their dad, mom and brother Ron also moved there. Grant and Gordon made Bjorkdale home starting with 110 acres and some animals, while still helping their dad farm land in Ridgedale for three more years.

“We had 90 cows at one time and a hog barn. [You] had to milk cows when you came home from combining,” said Gordon.

They kept growing their acres and at one point there were farming in Bjork Lake, Bjorkdale and Ridgedale.

Gordon met Margaret in 1957.

“I was a teacher, came to teach in Bjorkdale in 1957 and met a farmer.

We weren’t ready to get married right away so I went away for three years and taught somewhere else because they didn’t really approve of teachers having boyfriends then,” said Margaret.

The couple got married in 1963 and later adopted three children: Allan, Owen and Mary. Margaret taught

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in Porcupine Plain for over 30 years and retired in 1991 from teaching to work on the farm.

“That’s the funny thing about it is you never really retire from the farm,” said Margaret, with a laugh.

Grant and Gordon farmed together for 40 years until Grant died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 59. Margaret said they were halfway through harvest when he passed.

“The community and friends helped us get the rest of the harvest off,” said Margaret. “Because you’re living in a small area everybody knows everybody and they pitch in when there’s a problem.”

After Grant passed, Margaret and Gordon said they decided they needed to see the world while they could.

“It was actually after his brother died that we decided life’s too short; we’ll go see the world. We went on several trips to the States, bus trips [and] then took three or four overseas. Then we become snowbirds and went down to the same place,” said Margaret, adding they’ve travelled Canada as well.

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71st consecutive harvest for Bjorkdale’s McKeiths

BY TARYN RIEMER •

REPORTER@TISDALERECORDER.CA

Review Photo/Taryn Riemer Gordon and Margaret McKeith run the grain truck while their hired hand Marcel Muller, left, and son Allan, right, dump grain into the truck.

Continued from page 2 Today, Allan runs the farm, harvesting around 1,900 acres, while Margaret and Gordon haul grain and help out where they can.

“My son’s farming it and like I say I’m fully employed without pay,” Gordon said with a laugh. “We have to hire a person to run the combine in the fall so that’s another main help we have.”

Their hired hand who runs the combines is Marcel Muller. Gordon and Margaret haul grain together as it’s a lot easier on them that way.

“We’re both over 80, I’m 80 and he’s 84,” said Margaret.

“And I got real bad knees, arthritis,” added Gordon.

“It’s just a matter of saving each other a bit of the work,” said Margaret.

Gordon drives the grain truck and dumps it while Margaret climbs up into the tractor to run the auger. The two of them are able to get the work done, but they do need help when

the bin gets full. “[It’s Allan’s] job is to move the auger, we don’t and we don’t climb bins,” said Margaret.

“I used to but bins get higher and it’s hard for me to see,” added Gordon.

“As soon as the bin is full... then we call him in and he comes off the combine,” said Margaret.

Gordon said although he’s been told running the combine would be easier on him these days, he likes running truck.

“After driving truck that long and I don’t want to start into combining because you got to know what you’re doing on a combine these days,” said Gordon.

Gordon said this year’s harvest is going well with yields for wheat being normal and canola normal to above normal.

Margaret said after Allan retires from farming he’ll have to find someone else to run the farm as his son

is in the Navy and not interested in farming. Gordon said overall it’s been a good life farming and he continued with it because he didn’t want to continue with school.

“I guess Grade 12 education I sort of felt that was my limit. So I guess farming and being as we were farming, well stayed with it and I’ve enjoyed it,” said Gordon.

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A new way to farm

BY ROBIN TARNOWETZKI • JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The stereotypical view of a farmer is someone who walks among the crops, figuring out where he needs to spray or water. But with the advent of drones for agricultural uses, that work is being passed on to machines – drones, or unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV).

A drone can fly over a field in 1517 minutes and create a map so a farmer can look and see where the problem spots are – where to spray, where to water – and then resolve a problem before it becomes too big of an issue. “It’s giving you the information you require in season when you can

still do something about it,� said Blair Fleischhacker, corporate parts manager for Farm World.

This benefits the farmer by saving time, but there are also other benefits to having a drone. For one, knowing exactly where the problem areas are saves on chemicals. For another, the farmer can see where to apply more fertil-

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After harvest is done, the farmer can look back at all the information the drone has gathered and figure out what needs to be done differently the next year. “What I always say is it’s changing farming from reactive to proactive,�

Fleischhacker said.

Farm World in Humboldt began selling drones last spring for farmers in the area who might want to try something new. The cost of drone kits varies, based on what exactly you’re getting. On the lower end, a kit (which would include the drone and relevant hardware and software) can run $25,000. On the higher end, up to $120,000. The drone itself only costs about $2,500, but everything else is necessary to get all the benefit out of it. There are also subscription plans available, where a farmer may pay about $5,000 a year and a company has the software and will

process the images. “They’ve been selling good. It’s like anything, it’s a big commitment to make and it’s a new technology, so there’s always going to be those that want to hold back and wait and see,� Fleischhacker said. “There are also the early adopters with technology and they’re the ones purchasing.�

Drones aren’t just helpful with crops – they can be used to monitor livestock and detect sick animals using infrared.

For Fleischhacker, there’s no real downside to purchasing a drone kit – the only thing is Transport Canada has regulations in place for anybody using drones. For example, right now drones have to stay in the farmer’s sight, which means they can only fly out about a mile. “It’s definitely going to proceed and it’s definitely going to get more popular,� he said. “What I see happening is as regulations lift a little bit ... you’ll be able to cover more acres because you’ll be able to go further.�

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Fungicide timing for leaf and head disease management in wheat

BY STEWART BRANDT • NORTHEAST AGRICULTURE RESEEARCH H FOU UNDAT TION N

The occurrence and severity of leaf and head at approximately 75 per cent head emergence; cent head emergence and 50 per cent flowering.

Applying fungicides at the flag leaf stage signifidiseases in cereals has increased dramatically and at about 50 per cent flowering. Not all timings throughout Saskatchewan in recent years. To combat were used at all locations, and at some locations cantly increased wheat yield in than 50 per cent of these diseases, growers have increased their use of fungicides were applied at multiple timings to the the time. (The average yield increase was 5.5 bu/ac). same plots. Fungicides used included Tilt Headline However, applying fungicides at the 75 per cent head fungicides.

For control of leaf diseases, fungicides should be Proline, Stratego, Folicur, Quilt, Prosaro, Acapella emergence stage to 50 per cent flowering provided more consistent and higher yield responses in applied at the flag leaf stage for optimal efficacy, almost all cases (averaging a 9.5 bu/ac increase). while head diseases such as Fusarium Head Cultivars with good leaf disease resistance rarely Blight (FHB) are best controlled with fungicides showed a yield response to fungicides applied applied at early flowering. Producers are often at the flag leaf stage. This suggests that genetic unable to spray their crops at optimal timings, resistance was effective against leaf diseases. due to logistic, economic and environmental However, both head blight susceptible and restraints. This has led many growers to quesresistant cultivars responded equally well to tion whether a single fungicide application fungicides, suggesting that genetic resistance could provide acceptable control both types was less effective against head blight. There of diseases. In addition, hard red spring wheat were 21 comparisons where single applications cultivars differ in their ability to genetically resist made at either flag emergence or at 75 per cent fungal pathogens and also benefit from fungicide head emergence to 50 per cent bloom were application independently. It is expected that compared to dual applications made at both cultivars rated as good or fair for disease resistimings. In most cases, the single application tance will benefit less from fungicide application at 75 per cent head emergence to 50 per cent than those rated as poor or susceptible. bloom provide yield that were as good as the In an effort to provide information to growdual application. There were a few cases where ers about fungicide timing for controlling these the dual application provided higher yield than foliar diseases, Agri-ARM sites across Saskatchewan have conducted numerous studies and Review Photo/Devan C. Tasa single application. However, we would need a demonstrations since 2009. The Agri-ARM sites Stewart Brandt, a researcher with the Northeast Agriculture lot more responsive locations in order to develop form a network of research and demonstration Research Foundation, speaks about some of his research findings a way to predict when dual applications would be effective. locations across Saskatchewan that allow for at the Melfort Research Farm’s Field Day July 22.

To date we have less information on grain coordinated study of agronomic issues of importance across the province. They are located at and Caramba. Wheat cultivars used included AC quality than on yield responses, but it does appear Melfort, Prince Albert, Scott, Outlook, Swift Current, Barrie, Infinity, 5603HR, Kane (durum), Shaw VB, that fungicides and resistant varieties have been more effective at protecting wheat yield that in proUnity VB and Goodeve.

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Saving energy costs at home and on the farm

BY BECKY ZIMMER • JOURNAL EDITOR

Drastic Saskatchewan winters can be hard on your homes and wallets.

Making sure your home, farm and machinery are cold ready can save a lot of time, energy and money.

Karen Lukan at Home Hardware in Humboldt said that changing the furnace filter in your home is something people do not think about but can make your furnace more efficient.

Another way to save energy and money on your heating costs is by checking windows and doors for leaks and cracks. “Check the door sweeps for any cracks or missing pieces on the sweep because you can replace that so the cold air does come up from under the door,� she said.

Lukan said replacing insulation

seals around the door and replacing old trim can help make a tighter seal to prevent energy loss.

Heated shops and barns are a lot like houses when it costs to the places the buildings lose heat. With shops, checking around the larger door openings is a big job but can save you money. “Making sure your garage door and shop doors are sealed and working properly. You can lose a lot of heat that way,� she said.

Casey MacLeod with SaskEnergy said big ticket items are ones you need to look out for when it comes to saving energy. “Installing a mid- or high efficiency furnace will go a long way in helping you with home heating costs,� she said.

also help in keeping home temperatures low during times when you are asleep or gone from your home. “For every degree you turn your thermostat down, it does save you around two per cent on your energy bill. If you stay on top of your thermostat, it can go a long way,� she said.

Laundry time can also hike up your energy bill, since 85-90 per cent of the energy goes to heating the water. Washing on cold water is a big energy saver, said MacLeod.

She said south facing windows can save energy as well since you can let the sun do most of your heating and turn down your thermostat during peak hours.

Simple things can make a big difference, said MacLeod.

Unfinished basements can lose a lot of heat in areas that are missing insulation. MacLeod said having older windows can mean less efficiency, and looking into replacing them can save money in the long run on your heating bill.

She echoes Lukan’s advice on keeping your furnace clean and says you can schedule check-ups before winter with a certified plumbing and heating contractor. “If your furnace is clean, it will run at peak efficiency and use less energy,� she said.

MacLeod said cleaning or changing your furnace filter should be looked into once a month because it does affect the efficiency of your furnace.

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Vaccination can protect cattle investment

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With the high price of cattle, it’s important for producers to protect their investment. One way to do that is by vaccinations.

Heidi DubĂŠ, a veterinarian with Melfort-based Gateway Vet Services, said vaccination gives cattle the necessary herd protection to stop the spread of disease. “Stuff that’s easily preventable can be pretty devastating if you don’t protect against it,â€? she said.

There’s two sets of disease that cattle should be vaccinated for: respiratory diseases like bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVD), infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), parainfluenza-3 virus (PI3), bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) and bacterial pneumonia; and clostridial diseases – which comes from bacteria in the soil – like blackleg, tetanus and haemophilus. Anthrax has been sighted in the Northeast, so DubÊ encourages producers to get vaccinations for that as well.

Clostridial vaccines are effective at protecting cattle from illness when exposed to infected soil.

“By vaccinating we really reduce the occurrence of infections with those bacteria,â€? DubĂŠ said.

They also help when cattle are given operations like castration.

DubĂŠ said calves should be vaccinated for blackleg, haemophilus, BVD, IBR, PI3, BRSV and bacterial pneumonia in the spring before they are sent to pasture. Those vaccines are commonly repeated in the fall.

Pre-breeding cows should be vaccinated with a modified BVD, IBR, PI3, and BRSV living vaccine.

Pregnant cows should be vaccinated with a dead vaccine. “When you vaccinate, you pass on protection from mother to calf,â€? DubĂŠ said. “Mothers are typically pregnant when they come off pasture and you want to make sure you’re keeping all of your cows healthy so when they have their calves they pass on protection to their calves.â€?

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A vaccination regiment that covers all of the bases could cost around $4 or $5 per animal. “It depends on how many boosters you want to include, whether you put your anthrax in there, some people vaccinate for foot rot so that in pasture their animals are less likely to become lame,�

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Preventing disease with vaccination is cheaper than treating cattle with disease. “Keeping [cattle] vaccinated and up to date would certainly be a recommendation, even in terms of economics,â€? DubĂŠ said.

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BY DEVAN C. TASA •

Being safe during harvest time

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Harvest time is one of the most dangerous times of year for Northeast and East Central farmers.

“Unfortunately during August, September, October we see quite an increase in fatalities and injuries within the farming population,” said Kendra Ulmer, an occupational health nurse with the Agricultural Health and Safety Network. “Each year in Saskatchewan since 2000 there’s been about an average of 13 farm-related fatalities.”

Of those fatalities, 38 per cent involve farmers older than 60 and eight per cent involve children less than 14 years old.

Around 80 per cent of agricultural injuries involve machines, with entanglements, being pinned or struck by machinery, being run over and traffic accidents on public roads being some of the common causes. In terms

of hospitalizations, falls from heights, machines and grain bins are common causes.

“It’s important to really stay focused this time of year as it is one of the most dangerous times of the year for the farming industry,” Ulmer said. “You’re trying to get a lot of work done in a short period of time and often farmers are feeling like they’re racing against the clock.”

That feeling is worse this year thanks to the unpredictable weather.

To prevent injury or death, Ulmer said it’s important to keep safety on your mind and make it a priority, especially when farmers are feeling stressed, rushed and fatigued working long hours. Being tired affects judgement and reduces reaction time; fatigue can be combated with maintaining good nutrition and hydration, reducing intake of carbohydrates,

eating healthy snacks and regular meals, and sleeping more than six hours per day.

“It also helps to change jobs periodically, get out and take a short walk around the equipment and if you’re sleepy, it’s just so powerful to have a 20-minute nap to refresh and restore your body,” she said. “Remember that there’s a limit to physical and mental endurance; you can only do so much.”

Farmers should exit their machinery regularly. When they have to go out to answer the call of nature, Ulmer said they should check over their equipment.

“It’s also really important to take time out and think about what you’re doing when you’re working around these machines,” she said. “Turning them off and making sure it comes to a complete standstill costs nothing more than seconds, but that tiny amount of time to shut off the combine to make an adjustment or checking things over could definitely avoid a life changing injury or worse.”

After farmers do any maintenance on their equipment, they should make sure all guards and shields are put back after maintenance. That’s a step

that farmers sometimes decide to skip, Ulmer said.

“They’re used to this equipment and they want to make sure that it’s operating properly and most efficiently, so lots of times that’s why guards or shields are removed, because they think it might be easier to grease,” she said.

Yet there’s a reason why the guards are there in the first place: to protect from injury.

Those farmers that have children should make sure they are kept away from the work area to avoid injury or fatality. Most children that are injured are in the company of an adult when the event happens.

“If youth are recruited to help with harvest activities just making sure that the work assigned to them is age-appropriate and that they are well trained and supervised,” Ulmer said.

It’s also important to look out for overhead power lines when using tall equipment.

The Agriculture Health and Safety Network has a bunch of safety resources for farmers. Their website has a series of fact sheets and advice on how to create a farm safety plan.

Incorporation does not mean the loss of the family farm

BY KAREN SMITH • REGIONAL FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, TISDALE

The agricultural industry has seen some big changes in the past decade from every angle, from technology to management. It is no secret that Canadian farms are becoming larger and there has been a gradual decline of the number of farms in the country.

With these changes, some people will argue that farming has become a corporate business and the family farm is a thing of the past. But why can’t a corporate business also be a family owned operation?

The fact is, many family farms are corporations, and many farming corporations are family farms. Statistics Canada reported in their 2011 census that within Saskatchewan there are 6,304 family corporations (17.06 per cent of all farms in the province), up from 5,380 in 2006. Compare that to just 542 non-family corporations (1.47 per cent of the total number of farms in Saskatchewan) in 2011. The idea that the phrases “family farm” and “corporate farm” are mutually exclusive of each other is clearly not the case.

The number of family farm corporations is growing with the industry as it changes. Adapting to changes means making smart business decisions, and becoming incorporated is often one of these decisions for many farms.

There are a number of reasons a

family farm may decide to become incorporated. Many of today’s farms have a significant income, and shifting a farm into a corporate structure could provide several tax benefits.

Corporations have the flexibility to choose a year end other than Dec. 31, which could potentially be a big benefit to the farmer who sold his crop in December and can now wait until the following year to pay income tax.

The capital gains exemption, limited liability, tax deferral and savings, and other deductions all become available to farms that become incorporated.

A corporate structure also provides different strategies which could be beneficial during the transition of a farm from one generation to another.

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Fresh eating during winter months

BY BECKY ZIMMER • JOURNAL EDITOR

Eating fresh in the winter.

Keeping garden fresh vegetables at home can save both time and money compared to eating from the grocery store during the winter months.

Heather Crone farms around Annaheim and sells fresh produce and preserves at the Humboldt farmer’s market. She said she keeps vegetables fresh for her family until spring.

“We have it all year round,” Crone said. “I make sure I keep enough for me.”

Storing vegetables properly can be as simple as knowing your vegetables.

“Potatoes: it’s important to keep them dry and at a constant temperature. If they get too cold, the starches turn to sugar,” she said.

Onion and squash can be kept together but should be kept dry.

Crone keeps beets and tomatoes in the fridge so they are kept cold.

Different vegetables have different needs, said Mary Campbell of Campbell Greenhouse near Annaheim.

“Root crops and starches, you’d want to keep them in a cool dry place,” said Campbell.

“Not drying out and desiccating but you don’t want to keep them so moist that they are rotting.”

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your house or you can set up something on your window and have some nice, fresh herbs,” she said. “It’s always nice to have some greenery in your house during the winter and you can have something fresh to eat, too.”

Preserving vegetables and fruits is also a way to eat fresh but Crone said it is a dying practice.

People who come into the farmer’s market tell Crone that it’s something that they used to do but don’t anymore, or remember when their parents or grandparents made their own. A lot of people miss the homemade taste and feel of them. Crone said that it’s an age-old tradition that she is proud to carry on.

The benefits that come from doing it is something that people should consider.

“It’s good for you,” said Crone. “You know exactly what goes into it. You can be your own judge that way. You don’t have to worry about sugars or preservatives.”

Campbell said to research on what you’re trying to store makes sure that vegetables are kept at an optimal temperature, which makes them last longer.

Campbell has started a unique system in growing fresh vegetable for the winter. Her aquaponic garden near Annaheim is unique to Saskatchewan and uses fish as fertilizer and the plants to filter the fish ponds.

“We are actually a warehouse grow, so that means we grow completely indoors under lights in a custom grow beds,” she said.

Campbell mainly grows lettuce, as well as pea shoots and sunflower shoots, but sells her produce through Causeway Natural Health and the Humboldt Sobeys.

When growing your own winter garden, even a small one can make a difference, Campbell said.

“It’s always important to see what you can do.

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Indoor/outdoor options for composting

BY BECKY ZIMMER • JOURNAL EDITOR

With local compost programs being discontinued, Wendy Yaworski is giving people in the Humboldt area options for taking care of their organic waste with composting information sessions, through Communities in Bloom and React.

Yaworski said that by having your own organic composter, either in your yard or even indoors, you can take care of organic kitchen waste and create your own soil for starting potted plants, top dressing on lawns, and garden top off.

Composting breaks down kitchen and organic waste with microorganisms. Backyards and lawns means that lawn trimmings and leaf litter can be incorporated into compost as well.

“Backyard composting is a really efficient way of reconditioning (waste) into a nice soil conditioner called humus that you can incorporate into your pots, beds or lawns,” said Yaworski.

The type of end product that comes out of composters is the same quality of soil found under the under growth in wooded areas, said Yaworski.

Teaching composting starts at the basics since there are some people who have never composted before and do not know the process.

“I’ll be teaching people the proper carbon to nitrogen ratios for their piles, how to keep the oxygen available in their piles so their piles work properly, how to achieve the temperature,” said

Yaworski.

Piles that are large enough and done properly can reach up to 66 degrees Celsius, said Yaworski.

Yaworski said that keeping the composter going is just like following a recipe. If there is proper air, food, moisture and temperature, there is no reason for the composter to not work properly, smell, or attract bugs and rodents.

“I hear from people, ‘I have a compost pile but it’s not working.’ You have to have everything you need to make it work properly,” she said.

There are two types of composting – anaerobic and aerobic. The aerobic requires oxygen and is the most efficient way of compost and is recommended to backyard composters.

There is no oxygen used in an anaerobic composter, just organic matter and water and red wriggler worms to break down the matter.

These worms are different than just ordinary earthworms and Yaworski is working on getting a supply into Humboldt from dealers in either Saskatoon or Regina.

“That kind of composting is usually where you get the rotten egg smell…if you do it properly you’re not going to have those problems,” she said.

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Yeilds average to above average in the East Central

BY ROBIN TARNOWETZKI • JOURNAL STAFF WRITER This year’s growing season saw some impediments with drought and some frost. However, overall the yields are average or above average.

“The drought conditions at the beginning of this growing season were a large concern in this area.

There were some isolated hail storms throughout the region as well,” said Cory Jacob, regional crop specialist in Watrous. His region includes Humboldt and area.

“Early spring saw multiple frosts hitting some fields and insect pressure from flea beetles on canola.”

The region grows a diverse set

of crops, including wheat, durum, barley, oats, canary seed, winter wheat, fall rye, canola, flax, mustard, peas, lentils, soybean, and faba bean. However, there are some crops previously grown in the area that have fallen in popularity.

“Pulse crops including peas and lentils have been decreasing in acres in this region for the last few years as the wet cycle made growing them very difficult,” he said.

“Disease would set in early on or a root rot would hinder germination and growers were losing parts if not the majority of the fields due to the wet conditions.”

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He added that flax, durum, and faba beans have increased in the region – faba beans because they perform better in wet conditions than peas or lentils. Faba beans, as well as soybeans, are newer crops that are gaining popularity in the area. Towards the south portion of Jacob’s region, farmers grow coriander and caraway.

Though the seasons started out a bit worse with dry conditions, the area has returned to wet to saturated conditions. Jacob also said that there is less disease pressure and disease incidence this year compared to others, which

is a plus.

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture’s crop report indicates that about two-thirds of the crop is harvested. The only thing impeding harvest is rainy weather, and Jacob said some growers are leaving parts of their fields that are too wet to combine.

“The five-year average in this region is 64 per cent, so we are really on track with harvest progress,” Jacob said. “Overall, I don’t think it will be a late harvest, we need a couple of good weeks of weather to finish up harvest in this region and the forecast seems to show that.”

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Faba beans thrive in wet years

BY TARYN RIEMER •

Faba beans are the new crop on the block for Saskatchewan and there’s good reason for it. “It starts with coming out of four or five years of wet conditions,� said Sherrilyn Phelps, agronomy and seed program manager with Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. “Faba bean is very tolerant to excess water conditions and actually prefers more moisture versus less so it’s a good fit for a lot of areas in the province that do get that extra moisture.�

Along with being able to thrive in moist conditions, faba beans are able to withstand root rot pressure and they fix 90 per cent of their nitrogen needs.

Last year there were around 18,000 acres of faba beans grown in Saskatchewan. Prices for faba beans can range anywhere from just over $5 to $14 per bushel depending on the market, the quality, the variety and your buyer. Phelps

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said last year the average was between $7 and $9 per bushel.

The market is one of the main concerns for people about growing faba beans. Phelps said we don’t know how many Canadian faba beans the markets can take.

Another concern is quality, in order to get top dollar people need to have high quality faba beans.

The last concern with the plant is the fact that not a lot of companies have pesticides registered for faba beans yet, but Phelps said it’s starting to happen.

As for what faba beans are used for, Phelps said there are three uses but two main ones. “The two existing uses are the high quality for the food market. So countries such as Egypt, consume a lot of faba beans for human consumption. So those are typically the large tannin varieties. There is also a feed market so the lower tannin varieties fit well in the feed

market for livestock consumption,� said Phelps.

The third use has to do with the protein fractionation market. “Faba beans have between 24 and 32 per cent protein. So they have a high level of protein,� said Phelps. “There’s an interest in fabas for protein fractionation and that’s a market that’s just developing and hopefully we’ll see more in the future with that.�

Faba beans are an interesting plant because depending on the variety you are growing will depend on the size. There is a small, medium and large size and depending on which size you grow will determine your seeding rates. “The seed size range anywhere from about 300 to 325 grams per thousand kernel weight, all the way up to 800. So that’s almost a threefold difference in seed size and you’re targeting about 45 plants per metered squared,� said Phelps.

As for fertilizer, since faba beans produce a lot of biomass they take up a lot of nutrients. They fix most of the nitrogen, but phosphorus and potassium are a concern. “They’re a high user of phosphate and when you’re removing the crop from the field you’re also removing a lot of phosphate. So guys should be looking at replacing the amount of phosphate you’re taking off in the seed,� said Phelps.

When you’re going to be taking faba beans off in the fall, Phelps said the plant is very harvest friendly. They stand well, they can be desiccated and can be swathed. “Combining is pretty simple, they go through a combine very good, you want to harvest them when they’re 18 to 20 per cent moisture and then aerate them down to 16 for safe storage,� said Phelps, adding when you combine or cut them it’s best to do it at eight inches.

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Nutrients are prioritized for use in the body, also called partitioning.

Generally, nutrients are partitioned in the following sequence: maintenance, activity, growth, energy reserves, pregnancy, lactation, and reproduction. Depending on the stage of production and nutrients supplied, not all body functions may be receiving the nutrients required.

The above figure depicts daily energy requirements by a beef cow during the production year, excluding environmental extremes. For example, colder weather will increase nutrient requirements; if that animal is growing and not receiving a nutrient dense

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Soybean production sees rapid increase in Sask.

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In the last few years soybeans have become increasingly more popular in Saskatchewan. Prior to 2014, the province’s soybean acres were around 50,000. However, in 2014 that number skyrocketed to 300,000 acres.

“It’s a crop that’s still on the fringe area for Saskatchewan but there’s lots of interest in soybeans and I don’t think it’s going to go away,” said Dale Risula, provincial specialist for specialty crops in Saskatchewan.

Soybeans have become a popular choice to producers in Saskatchewan because it’s a good crop to add to their rotation that is easy to market and helps if there is any buildup of disease.

Risula said the pros to growing soybeans includes them being easy to grow, even easier than other pulse crops, and they’re glyphosate resistant which makes weed control easier. “[Soybeans are] fairly easy to seed and harvest using the same machinery they currently use and the market is quite big. There’s always a huge demand for soybeans, it’s one of the most marketed oilseed legume crop in the world so it’s in high demand,” said Risula.

The downside to soybeans is that they prefer certain conditions that we don’t always get in our province.

“It’s a crop that likes warm and moist conditions, so we have one or the other in Saskatchewan. We can

either have lots of moisture and not enough heat units or we have lots of heat units and not enough moisture,” said Risula.

However, Risula said there are different varieties in the works that will be better suited to our conditions in Saskatchewan.

If you’re looking to get into soybeans, Risula said there are some things you need to know about the crop.

“Seeding it requires that you seed it into warm soil because of the nature of the plant, it’s prone to early season frost. So it’s got to be seeded mid-May,” he said.

As for seeding rates, Risula said that depends if you’re seeding in narrow row spacing or wide. Plants per acre for soybeans can range anywhere from 175,000 to 200,000.

Fertilization for soybeans can also be considered a pro because the plant fixes nitrogen.

“Nitrogen is usually the most expensive and plentiful nutrient that’s applied to crops in Saskatchewan, so you don’t have to do that with the soybean because it fixes it own with the bacteria,” said Risula.

However, phosphorous will be required with soybeans.

Harvesting is relatively easy as long as the frost hits after the soybeans are mature.

“The more mature it gets the less prone it is to damage from frost. If it’s fully mature before any killing

frost hits us then you can harvest it quite well because it tends to just dry down on its own after it’s been frozen,” said Risula, adding you can apply a desiccant or a harvest-aid product to help bring in the crop more uniformly and help harvest it at an earlier day.

Risula said you’re looking at harvesting soybeans closer to the end of September or early October because of the later seeding date and the 120 days needed for it to mature.

Prices for soybeans depend on the rest of the world as there are a lot

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of soybeans grown in the rest of the world. Risula said last year soybeans were getting $13 a bushel, but this year it’s around $8 to $9 a bushel.

Soybeans are most commonly used as oil, but Risula said there are some new products being developed in the health food industry as well as other places.

“There’s also ways that people are looking at developing soybeans as a food. The Japanese use it to make different foods that are delicacies in Japan and it’s starting to sort of fit into North America now as well,” he said.

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